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‘The wife of a colleague was known to be partial to bacon and banana.’

‘I've been especially partial to their playing of Mozart.’

‘I could afford the best wine by then, and I'd had become very partial to bacon every morning.’

‘Unfortunately for me I'm very partial to cream buns and meat pies.’

‘Certainly, that touring party was more than partial to a peculiarly Kiwi version of bacon and egg pie.’

‘You know, I'm very partial to what you are saying here.’

‘But since Sophia is partial to dark colours herself, he'll probably never know.’

‘He'd always been more partial to Eliana, but Evangeline was his daughter nonetheless.’

‘Today's side is also partial to knockout competition.’

‘On another note, I have always been more partial to his poetry than his criticism.’

like, love, enjoy, have a liking for, be fond of, be keen on, have a fondness for, have a weakness for, have a soft spot for, have a taste for, be taken with, care for, have a penchant for, have a predilection for, have a proclivity for, be enamoured of

noun

‘In stringed instruments, additional strings of wire that vibrate in sympathy with a unison note or one of its partials, bowed or plucked on the main strings, adding a shimmer to the sound.’

‘One unusual aspect of this music is that the rich upper partials of the voices bring out the simple harmonies of the hymns in a way not normally heard.’

‘Bass players in these bands often play with picks, which also emphasizes higher partials.’

‘At once the problem arises that the human voice is composed of many tones: the fundamental tone and a series of other tones called upper harmonics or partials.’

‘Fortunately, Väisänen salvages the track by piling up shimmering partials over the depths-of-the-ocean drone before the track gently recedes into the distance.’

Origin

Late Middle English (in partial (sense 2 of the adjective)): from Old French parcial ( partial (sense 2 of the adjective)), French partiel ( partial (sense 1 of the adjective)), from late Latin partialis, from pars, part- ‘part’.